Is your child feeling the pressures of a team or individual sport? Here are some tips on helping them handle the pressure.
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When you are the adult child of an alcoholic or a child of a narcissist, you are forced to live in survival. This forces a child to focus on what they cannot control. The abandonment wound is rooted in childhood trauma.
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The Adverse Childhood Study found that survivors of childhood trauma are up to 5,000 percent more likely to attempt suicide, have eating disorders, or become IV drug users. Dr. Vincent Felitti, the study's founder, details this remarkable and powerful connection.
In this film, we hear from Dr. Gabor Mate, international expert on trauma, who explores the theme of trauma as disconnection from the self and why relationships are central to the prevention and recovery of trauma.
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Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, talk about how to stop the "monkey brain" and how couples can work together to heal their relationship